On 03/17/2011 09:18 AM, James Westby wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:57:23 -0400, Chase Douglas > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> We've received a request to enable two finger scrolling by default in >> Ubuntu. After querying some of our uTouch and X developers, everyone >> seems to be in agreement that this is a good idea. With that, I'd like >> to ask for any comments on the change, positive or negative. If you >> believe two finger scrolling should not be enabled by default it is very >> important that we hear from you! > > Does this disable edge-scrolling? (In my experience enabling it via the > mouse preferences does that)
It does appear to be an either/or option. In the mouse preferences dialog there's three radio buttons: * Disabled * Edge scrolling * Two-finger scrolling > If so my concern would be that I (and so presumably others) have a > laptop with bevels on the touchpad that indicate that edge scrolling is > possible. If it no longer is on Ubuntu then people will have the > impression that Ubuntu no longer works on their hardware (and I'm not > sure knowledge of two-finger scrolling is pervasive enough that all of > these people will know to use that instead.) The default state is presently Edge scrolling, so this is a concern. Thanks, -- Chase -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
